... 414 Ohio Arch 414 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion It remains for us to take up the full burden of citizenship and to consecrate our lives to the task of making our country worthy of the sacrifices that have been made by those who in countless numbers have given their lives for its establishment and its preservation With a great price have our privileges of citizenship been purchased Woe ...
... FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN The following review of Mr Fowke's volume appears in the Nation of December 25 1902 As it is the policy of the Nation to expose defects wherever they exist and to speak well only of that which deserves high praise its general approval of Mr Fowke's work is something upon which he is to be congratulatedE 0 R Archaeological History of Ohio The Mound Builders and Later Indians By Gerard Fowke Published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY MARCH 1888LEGISLATION IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY APRIL 2 1788 a band of forty-eight pioneers left the mouth of the Voughiogheny in the Mayflower of the West Floating out into the Monongahela they emerged on the broad bosom of the Ohio and began an easier journey down that beautiful river to their chosen homes in the valley below Five days after they landed on the bank of the Muskingum river at its confluence with the Ohio and the first ...
... CAPTAIN T W RATHBONE'S BRIEF DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT JULY 1 - NOVEMBER 21 1864 edited by LOUIS BARTLETT Thomas W Rathbone of Amelia Ohio was thirty-nine years old and a captain in an Ohio National Guard regiment on one hundred days' service when he was taken prisoner after a skirmish near North River Mills West Virginia on July 3 1864 Two months later while a patient in the Roper Hospital at Charleston South Carolina he began writing the diary which appears in the following pages To make it a ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS THE C ROGHAN CELEBRATION LUCY ELLIOT KEELER It was not bad usage of the old Romans to bring down from its niche the waxen image of an eminent ancestor on the anniversary of his natal day to recall his features and achievements to their own minds and impress them upon the younger generation A like tribute the patriotic citizens of Fremont Ohio pay from time to time to their local hero Major George Croghan on the anniversary of that notable ...
... LOGAN -THE MINGO CHIEF LOGAN -THE MINGO CHIEF 1710-1780 The Ohio tribes of Indians produced an extraordinary number of illustrious chiefs who figured large in the history of their race Among these were Pontiac Tecumseh Cornstalk Little Turtle Blue Jacket and a score of others who left distinguished records as warriors orators and tribal leaders Among these perhaps no one gained a fame so wide as that acquired by Logan the Mingo chief who refused to attend the Treaty of Camp Charlotte and at ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob Marcus Director The growing collections of congregational minute books genealogies and personal papers of notable Jewish personalities are being cataloged and made available for researchers Dr Stern-Taeubler's book The Court Jew has recently been published BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President The association is at present furnishing a room at the museum ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS INTO THE BREACH CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF WALLACE W CHADWICK Edited by MABEL WATKINS MAYER Grandfather was always extremely proud of his brief war record in 1864 In his more than four-score years it was the one outstanding experience in travel adventure and patriotic service that had relieved him for a little while of strenuous pioneering and heavy farm toil What wonder that it made a lasting impression on his life and conversation He loved to tell how President Lincoln scarce ...
... FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS FORT GREEVILLE TRADITIONS JAMES OLIVER ARNOLD Four walls of wood growth of hickory walnut oak ash and elm mingled with maples and undergrowth so dense that a horseman could not pass so tall that its shade cast a gloom about and between these walls a clearing and military fort Beyond another clearing and a cabin built of logs lighted by a little window The heavy oaken door swung on wooden hinges the curling smoke from the chimney made of lath grass and clay and the ...
... The Firelands Grant The Firelands Grant 435 THE FIRELANDS GRANT BY CLARENCE D LAYLIN This article is the outgrowth of a paper read before the Political Science Club of Ohio State University The discussion which followed the reading of the paper among members of that club led to further investigation the result of which is the article as here produced-EDITOR In treating of the settlement of new countries the general and proper method is to recite the history of its pioneer days Without the ...
... DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DEDICATION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCH A EOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING MAY 30 1914 On the afternoon of Saturday May 30th Memorial Day following the annual meeting of the Society which was held in the morning the Society celebrated the dedication of the new building located on the campus 0 S U corner High Street and 15th Ave First President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The building facing the east ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 2 APR I L 1 961 Samuel Watts Davies and The Industrial Revolution in Cincinnati By HARRY R STEVENS IN AN AGE PREOCCUPIED with case studies it is refreshing to discover a man as distinctive and individual as Samuel Watts Davies Although he seems on first acquaintance to be merely a typical aggressive frontier business enterpriser the appearance of similarity is deceptive The resemblance exists but not because Davies ...
... TECUMSEH AND HIS DESCENDANTS TECUMSEH AND HIS DESCENDANTS BY C B GALBREATH Much has been written of the famous Shawnee Indian chief Tecumseh who was born in Clark County Ohio in a village near the site of Springfield and who died leading his braves in the battle of the Thames Canada where the Americans under William Henry Harrison signally defeated the combined forces of the British and their Indian allies Nothing remains to be said of this natural born leader of his race but those who have ...
... BEGINNINGS OF LUTHERANISM IN OHIO BEGINNINGS OF LUTHERANISM IN OHIO BY PROFESSOR B F PRINCE PH D By the treaty of Fort Stanwix made with the Iroquois Indians in 1768 a large tract of land was opened to settlement in Western Pennsylvania and other regions reaching as far south as Eastern Tennessee The lands in Western Pennsylvania were opened to purchase in 1769 They were much sought for by residents of the eastern part of the State and by adventurers from Maryland and Virginia There were also ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XX No 1 JANUARY 1911 JEFFERSON'S ORDINANCE OF 1784 Frequent inquiries have come to the Editor of the Quarterly concerning the nature of Jefferson's Ordinance of 1784 for the organization of the Northwest Territory and its bearing upon the later Ordinance of 1787 In reply to such inquiries we submit the following As early as the fall of 1776 and at various times later up to the final peace agreement of 1783 Congress by resolution pledged bounty lands to those ...
... THE TAYLOR FAMILY OF DENTISTS THE TAYLOR FAMILY OF DENTISTS by EDWARD C MILLS DDS FACD Of the many families of America which have made outstanding permanent contributions to science and to the professions Ohio may claim one which has made a special contribution to the field of dentistry--the Taylor family The progenitor of this family William Taylor a Revolutionary soldier of Monmouth County New Jersey was born December 27 1744 His forbears of English extraction had settled in New Jersey in ...
... THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE THE WORTHINGTON MEDICAL COLLEGE By JONATHAN FORMAN M D Those of you who drove in to this meeting may have noted as you approached Columbus the remnants of our pioneer days which still set forth clearly the identity of our original settlers Those of you who came from the west or southwest along highways 3 40 or 42 should have been impressed with the large farms with the original masters' houses set way back from the road reminiscent of Virginia from where came ...
... UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER UNVEILING OF TABLET AT FORT GOWER Appropriate and interesting exercises marked the unveiling of a tablet by the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution on the site of old Fort Gower at Hockingport Athens County Ohio The exercises preliminary to the dedication were held in the city of Athens Friday evening November 9 The formal dedication and unveiling of the tablet occurred on the day following at Hockingport The granite monument bears two tablets one ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION THE WESTERN INDIANS IN THE REVOLUTION WALLACE NOTESTEIN This paper was awarded the annual prize offered to Ohioans by the Ohio Sons of the Revolution for an historical essay February 1905 The assigned subject that year was the Western Indians in the Revolution The writer aimed only at a clear and concise treatment of the Indian War in the West of which so far as he is aware there is no brief recent account The discussion of Gov Hamilton's responsibility ...